Holocaust Memorials

Contains history of Babi Yar Park in Denver, Colorado by Alan Golin Gass.

Babi Yar Park in Denver, Colorado was dedicated on October 2, 1983 to memorialize the September 1941 massacre of the Jews that remained in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, at a ravine called Babi Yar. The Babi Yar Park Foundation was formed under the leadership of Helen Ginsburg. Collection contains minutes, administrative papers, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, news clippings, photos, public relations materials and architectural drawings from the Babi Yar Park between 1969-2015.

The collection contains nine folders with Ladies Auxiliart meeting minutes and administrative notes, 1963-1997, two scrapbooks, seven Annual Dinner programs from 1973-1980 and one from 2010, and appointment calendars from 1987 from the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Hillel Academy of Denver, Colorado, from 1963 through 2010.

Contains seven files of construction documents, drawings, and photographs. Information from Larry Mizel and Alan Gass was added to this box.

History of the first 43 years of Babi Yar Park, the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of the Mizel Museum Newsletter and a copy of "Star Witness" article from the July 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine along with email correspondence between Alan Gross and people wishing to build a memorial in Kiev.

The file contains photographs of a ceremony at the Hillel Academy "Memorial to the Holocaust and Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings." The memorial was created in 1967 and was probably the first in the state. Rabbi Manuel Laderman attended the ceremony.

Unidentified people stand around the Holocaust Memorial in Pueblo, Colorado.

The Holocaust Memorial in Pueblo, Colorado.

Several unidentified people stand around the Holocaust Memorial in Pueblo, Colorado.